Why AI Will Create (Not Take) Roles On Your Marketing Team

This article is part of our unPredictions series — no guesswork, no lofty trends, just real commerce marketing priorities to help you drive customer engagement and increase growth and revenue in 2022.

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AI is here to stay. Marketers have to adapt sooner than later because AI systems will become more integral to the role as time ticks on. While some marketers succumb to the stories of fear surrounding the technology, others embrace it. It’s time to learn to partner with AI and let it help (not hurt) our organizations. 

AI empowers marketing teams to execute on intelligent personalization, which requires advanced segmentation based on behavior and purchase history, as well as fully unified data sets. It also helps to deliver personalized content in real time, at the exact moment it will make the most impact on the customer. 

With so much that AI does, and can do, there’s one thing we want to make clear right now: AI won’t take roles on your marketing team… in fact, it will create them.

How AI Adds Value to Marketing Teams

Imagine trying to do intelligent, real-time personalization with the limited manpower you have at your disposal. To do as a human what a machine could do in a fraction of the time and cost, you’d have to:

Clearly, no human can do all those things. And even if there were such a person, let’s be honest — you couldn’t afford them (because they would be the most in-demand marketer on the planet). 

But hope is not lost! You can find this team member in the form of technology. 

Artificial Intelligence is the home-run hire, the team member you desperately need to enhance your marketing, make better strategic decisions, and step into the realm of intelligent  personalization. AI delivers sophisticated, 1:1 engagements, in real-time, at scale. 

Here’s 4 big ways AI will add value to your organization.

AI Will Do the Hard Work for You

AI can handle the “heavy lifting” that stands between your marketing team and true 1:1 personalization. You can lean on AI to do the hard work of advanced, proactive segmentation –  analyzing your customer data for sales opportunities and scaling your

personalized marketing. 

When you add AI to the marketing mix, it’s like adding the following pivotal

team members:

Make Informed Decisions, Fast, Using Predictive AI

AI is so effective at analyzing data that it can see patterns that humans might miss. In essence, it essentially acts as a customer behavior fortune teller. 

AI also removes a lot of the uncertainty and guesswork that surround marketing, especially when it comes to predicting your customer’s actions. The tech can predict which customers are likely to buy or convert, remain inactive, or defect. That way, you never miss an opportunity to convert interested customers, or engage at-risk buyers before they leave your brand for good. 

When you incorporate AI into the mix, your marketing goes from reactive to proactive. Not only is this beneficial for how you’re engaging your customers, it improves your ability to drive revenue. 

Giving your customers what they want before they even know they want it establishes you as the brand that understands them best, that they can rely on and trust. AI also gives you the ability to accurately predict overall campaign performance, which means you can continually optimize your marketing efforts to achieve your goals and objectives faster. 

Putting it into Action

The role of the marketer is ever evolving, and the use of AI is just another tool in the toolbox that we can use to help build out a robust library of content that will engage customers. 

While it may seem like AI will do all of the work, it is not quite the case. AI should be seen more as a precision tool that can help us deliver the most relevant content at the best time. 

The needs of a modern day marketing team are constantly changing, and the roles and skills these teams need to function effectively should be regularly evaluated. 

With the ever-expanding list of technologies (like AI), channels, and data integrations, it’s important that the teams are regularly training and growing their skillset to use these modern digital amenities to the fullest. 

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